Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. In the U.S. patient out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs are ...

Forty-nine percent of payers questioned believe that Value-Based Insurance Design is the most effective way to improve the performance of Disease Management (DM) and Wellness programs. This, according ...

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CMS announced the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design Model on Tuesday, which aims to reduce the utilization of avoidable high-cost care while improving Medicare beneficiaries’ health.

Hello and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I am your host, Jeff Byers. We're recording on 02/06/2025. Before we begin, I wanted to remind listeners that we released a new health policy brief last ...

CMS is refining its Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design model for 2018. The Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design test was announced in September 2015 to measure if value-based ...

Value-based insurance design (VBID), conceived by a multi-disciplinary faculty team at the university of Michigan, works on the premise of aligning patients' out-of-pocket costs with the value of ...

Although the gap between low and high value has been established in many areas, insurance design has yet to adapt, according to a panel at the 20th annual Value-Based Insurance Design (VBID) Summit.

What's next when policy can't fix what policy created? Last December, CMS announced that it would terminate the Medicare Advantage Value-Based Insurance Design (MA VBID) model due to “substantial and ...

NEW YORK, Dec 19 (Reuters) - A new U.S. health insurance model uses financial sticks and carrots to steer patients toward the most beneficial care. Sign up here. The model, known as value-based ...